Demons

by Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1872

In a provincial Russian town, the nihilist Pyotr Verkhovensky manipulates a cell of radicals toward murder and chaos, while the brooding Nikolai Stavrogin's own moral emptiness draws them all toward catastrophe.

Books mentioned in Demons (2)

• Vie de Jesus by Ernest Renan: “when reading Renan's "Vie de Jésus."”
• Henry IV by William Shakespeare: “thought there was a resemblance between Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch and Prince Harry in Shakespeare's Henry IV”

Books that mention Demons (3)

• How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “Svidrigailov's freedom, like Stavrogin's in The Devils, is 1 72 How TO READ AND WHY absolute, and also is absolutely terrifying.”
• The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk: “in the suicide scene in The Devils—there may be no explicit image on the page”
• The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino: “If I read Turgenev's Fathers and Sons or Dostoyevsky's The Possessed, I cannot help thinking how the characters have continued to be reincarnated”